CERN

Chronology of Coverage

May. 8, 2015

Leaders of European and American particle physics initiatives sign data-sharing agreement at White House ceremony; organizations include Dept of Energy, National Science Foundation and CERN; agreement will allow the United States to continue collaborating on the Large Hadron Collider, world's flagship particle experiment. MORE

Jan. 13, 2015

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of the European Organization of Nuclear Research, or CERN, has made his name by taking struggling lab and guiding it to discovery of Higgs boson particle; Heuer is entering last year of his term at CERN, and will become director of German Physical Society in 2016 as Fabiola Gianotti takes over CERN. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Fabiola Gianotti, who led one of two teams of physicists that discovered the Higgs boson, has been named next director-general of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. MORE

Feb. 25, 2014

Documentary film Particle Fever, directed by Mark Levinson, follows handful of scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, during their quest to locate Higgs particle; film is one of rare few in which scientists are the heroes. MORE

Sep. 29, 2013

Download interview with physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of the European Council for Nuclear Research; Heuer offers recommendations for books and other forms of entertainment. MORE

May. 7, 2013

The Week column; CERN reposts world's first Web site, which was about World Wide Web itself and how to utilize it, on 20th anniversary of its debut; other significant developments in health and science news highlighted. MORE

Mar. 5, 2013

Teams of scientists working at Large Hadron Collider near Geneva struggled through years of triumphs, disappointments and false alarms in effort to confirm existence of Higgs boson, particle whose existence may explain underpinnings of universe; teams presented evidence that likely affirms discovery of particle at July 4, 2012, symposium, bringing sense of closure to $10 billion experiment; timeline, highlights of research milestones, Higgs boson explained. MORE

Dec. 11, 2012

Yuri Milner, Russian billionaire who describes himself as 'failed physicist,' is set to announce round of multimillion-dollar prizes to physicists; pair of $3 million prizes are awarded to cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes and to seven scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, for discovery of what is probably the Higgs boson particle. MORE

Jul. 3, 2012

Fermilab physicists announce that its Tevatron, once the world's most powerful physics machine, has fallen just short of finding the long-hypothesized Higgs boson particle; news comes as scientists await announcement from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, that physicists using the Large Hadron Collider may have actually found the particle. MORE

Dec. 14, 2011

Two teams of scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research say that they have recorded tantalizing hints of a long-sought subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, whose existence is a key to explaining why there is mass in the universe. MORE

Dec. 12, 2011

Lisa Randall, Harvard scientist and author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, answers questions about the Higgs boson, elusive particle whose discovery would vindicate the modern theory of how elementary particles get mass, on eve of highly anticipated progress report from scientists at CERN. MORE

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January 13, 2015, Tuesday

Fabiola Gianotti, who led one of the two teams of physicists that discovered the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle that imbues other particles with mass, has been named the next director general of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear...

July 5, 2014, Saturday

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